|
|
Francis Davis Millet
(November 3, 1846 - April 15, 1912) was an American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.
Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. At age sixteen, Millet entered the Massachusetts regiment, first as a drummer boy and then a surgical assistant in the American Civil War. He repeatedly pointed to his experience working for his father as giving him an appreciation for the vivid blood red that he repeatedly used in his early paintings.
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 59895
Reading the Story of Oenone
Reading the Story of Oenone, ca. 1883. Painting at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 59896
An Autumn Idyll
An Autumn Idyll, 1892. Painting at the Brooklyn Museum.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Prev Artist Next Artist
|
|
Francis Davis Millet
(November 3, 1846 - April 15, 1912) was an American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.
Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. At age sixteen, Millet entered the Massachusetts regiment, first as a drummer boy and then a surgical assistant in the American Civil War. He repeatedly pointed to his experience working for his father as giving him an appreciation for the vivid blood red that he repeatedly used in his early paintings.
. Related Artists to Francis Davis Millet: | Jean-Paul Laurens | Pietro Vannuci called il Perugino | MONNOYER, Jean-Baptiste | Felice Giani | Samuel Palmer,OWS |
|
|
|
